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One of my childhood favorites, Mr. Rogers, used to tell a story about how when he was a child and he saw something disturbing on the news, his…
I'm a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. My wife is the head of human resources for an infrastructure firm in Canada. She has been w…
"EVACUATION MESSAGE" After a few days of coronavirus-centered speculation, the email subject line - with its caps lock-induced sense of urgenc…
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President Donald Trump proclaimed himself the "king of debt" during the 2016 campaign, and he does have a long history of borrowing huge amoun…
Walking my dog Dorothy a few months ago I didn’t recognize the fellow waving from the white car until he stopped to say hello. Turns out it wa…
It is not cognitive dissonance — the impossibility of holding two or more contradictory beliefs simultaneously — to favor the $2 trillion coro…
President Donald Trump recently signed a coronavirus relief package that extends and enhances benefits for America's rapidly growing numbers o…
In addition to the usual rambling and nonsense, President Donald Trump's daily briefings of efforts to contain and combat the coronavirus have…
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The coronavirus presents a challenge for the United States the likes of which we haven't seen in a generation, but one that has been warned of…
